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MINIMAC4(1) General Commands Manual MINIMAC4(1)

minimac4 - Fast Imputation Based on State Space Reduction HMM

Minimac4 is a lower memory and more computationally efficient implementation of "minimac2/3".

It is an algorithm for genotypic imputation that works on phased genotypes (say from MaCH). Minimac4 is designed to handle very large reference panels in a more computationally efficient way with no loss of accuracy. This algorithm analyzes only the unique sets of haplotypes in small genomic segments, thereby saving on time-complexity, computational memory but no loss in degree of accuracy.

M3VCF file containing haplotype data for reference panel.
This option only imports variants with FILTER = PASS.
This option only imports RS ID of variants from ID column (if available).

File containing haplotype data for target (gwas) samples. Must be VCF file. Zipped versions allowed.

Prefix for all output files generated. By default: [Minimac4.Output]
This option will only convert an input VCF file to M3VCF format (currently de-activated in minimac4). If this option is ON, no imputation would be performed.
If ON, output files will NOT be gzipped.
Specifies which fields to output for the FORMAT field in output VCF file. Available handles: GT,DS,HDS,GP [Default: GT,DS].
If ON, sites available ONLY in GWAS panel will also be output [Default: OFF].

Chromosome number for which to carry out imputation.
Start position for imputation by chunking.
End position for imputation by chunking.
Length of buffer region on either side of --start and --end.

If ON, log will be written to $prefix.logfile.
If ON, detailed help on options and usage.
Number of cpus for parallel computing. Works only with Minimac4-omp.

https://genome.sph.umich.edu/wiki/Minimac4

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